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U.S. GOVERNMENT
INFORMATION .
Calendar No. 538
117TH CONGRESS REPORT
2d Session SENATE 117-187
SUN RIVER HYDROPOWER PROJECT
OCTOBER 18, 2022.-Ordered to be printed
Filed, under authority of the order of the Senate of October 14, 2022
Mr. MANCHIN, from the Committee on Energy and Natural
Resources, submitted the following
R E P O R T
[To accompany S. 3450]
The Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, to which was
referred the bill (S. 3450), to authorize the Secretary of the Interior
to construct, operate, and maintain facilities in the Sun River
project, Montana, for the purpose of hydroelectric power genera-
tion, having considered the same, reports favorably thereon with-
out amendment and recommends that the bill do pass.
PURPOSE
The purpose of S. 3450 is to authorize the Secretary of the Inte-
rior to construct, operate, and maintain facilities in the Sun River
project, Montana, for the purpose of hydroelectric power genera-
tion.
BACKGROUND AND NEED
The Sun River originates in the Rocky Mountains and flows east
into central Montana before emptying into the Missouri River. The
Bureau of Reclamation's (Reclamation) Sun River Project uses a
group of reservoirs and canals along the Sun River and its tribu-
taries to irrigate roughly 93,000 acres of agricultural land. Gibson
Dam, a major structure of the project, is a Reclamation-owned dam
located on the Sun River within the Lewis and Clark National For-
est, 70 miles west of Great Falls, Montana.
In January 2012, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
(FERC) granted a license to construct and operate hydropower fa-
cilities at Gibson Dam to the Gibson Dam Hydroelectric Company,
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